St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-10
BAD FOR BLAINE.
Anything But Favorable Com
ments on the Unofficial Mes

Anything But Favorable Com
ments on the Unofficial Mes
sage.
New YORK, Dec. 9.-In commenting
on Mr.. Blaine'S message the Times
says: ''This, then, is the sum of Mr..
Blaine'S policy; and as he is the leader
of the Republican party at present it
must be taken as the policy of the Re-
publicans until they repudiate it. 1t is
not policy they can go before the peO
pie with. There is too much common
sense and too much everyday Old-fash-
Toned honesty in the United States yet
for the voters to be trapped by so reck-
less, so shallow. and so dangerous
scheme as this. They know that they
are enormously OvertaXed. They know
that the surplus taxes are constantly
increasing peril to their business and a
steadily heavier drain on their resour-
ceS. They will not follow the leader
who would tax them only to Squander.
and who would throw their money out
of the treasury windows rather than
lift the most OnerOuS of the tariff duties
on the materials of American indus
tires"
The Tribune says: Mr.. Blaine in
Europe speaks as an American. Mr..
Cleveland in America speaks as Brit
ish manufacturer, anxious to be adj
mitted without any charge to share of
the best and largest market in the
world. Americans who make that mar
ket have to bear the expense of self
government in the ration, the states,
the counties, cities and towns, and eS-
pecially in the school districts, where
competent American voters for the fut-
ure are trained. Without contributing
cent to these expenditures, British
manufacturers want to share in that
market and to break down American
industries by their competition. their
large capital and their under-paid labor.
Mr.. Cleveland appears as the attorney
for the British interest in this cOntro-
versy. and his words move Mr.. Blaine
to indignant protest.
The World says: 1.-The Maine states
mans interview is in fact a proclama-
ton that Mr.. Blaine considers himself to
be the chosen champion of protection
and that he is ready to enter the preSi-
dental lists again as such. The fact
that Mr.. Blaine had not read the full
text of the presidents message must
serve as his excuse for miSrepreSenting
its purport. Mr.. Blaine is behind the
times on this question. The people of
this country are bent upon stopping the
surplus, instead of squandering or di-
viding it. They believe that the only
honest place. as well as the best place.
for every dollar not needed for the le-
Ultimate expenses of the government is
in the pocket of the man who earned it.
President Cleveland stands for this
purpose. Mr.. Blaine comes forward as
the champion of the opposite idea. The
Democratic party could not ask for
better issue"
The Sun says: IF Brother Blaine
entertains such loose notions of the re-
lations between the federal government
and the states. it strikes us that he would
be conspicuously unfit person to in
trust with the nations financial affairs"
CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-The Tribune this
morning, commenting editorially on
Mr.. BlaIne's reply 10 President Cleve-
lands message, says:
MIR. Blaine. as might have been ex-
pected, has presented high tariff from a
partisan point of view, as an opposition
issue to the presidents views on tariff
reduction. We have long and appar-
entity very pleasant winter before us in
which to discuss this question, and it is
a question which must he settled en-
tirely upon its merits and not upon po-
litical considerations. So far, therefore,
as air. Blaine seeks to make it appear
as a party issue, he will fail. 1t
is Sufficient explanation of Mr..
Blaine's interview that he is a
Pennsylvania. He was brought up in